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Month after month, and year after year, one of the most consistently popular features of PCMag.com are our Solutions. It's hardly any surprise; we have tech experts Loyd Case and Neil Rubenking answering your hardware and software questions, DIY projects to keep you building and busy, and a plethora of tips covering many aspects of tech. What can we say; PCMag.com just loves to help.

Every weekday we send out a Tip of the Day newsletter, bringing the best of our solutions straight to your inbox. If you haven't subscribed yet, scroll about halfway down this page, and you'll find a gray box that will get you signed up. We've collected 50 of your favorite tech tips from this year's newsletter archives. Check them out belowyou may find the piece of expert help that changes your computing life.

Be sure to come back in a few weekswe've got 50 more tips where these came from.

1. The Ultimate USB Key
With some extra planning, your USB drive can be more than a briefcase; it can be a tool to keep you connected and functional, too. Read our tip to learn how to make a USB key with power.

2. Wiping a Hard Drive
Want to know best way to ensure that nobody can recover any information from a hard drive that's being thrown away? Read this tip to learn how to wipe an old drive clean.

4. Command Prompt Magic
In this tip, we'll tell you how to make large jobs easy with a few command line tricks.

5. Build an XP SP3 Recovery Disc
Think you can use your original Windows XP disc to restore your PC? Think again. Read today's tip to learn how to make your own recovery disk that's completely up to date.

6. Hacking XP
Have you rejected Vista to stick with the tried and true? Good for you, because we've got a lot of ways you can hack Windows XP in today's tip.